Why don't reporters ask Republicans about the way they've been packing courts for years? Has a single prominent Republican had to answer for or explain it? Did a single reporter worry about Rising Partisanship before Ds started talking about fighting back? https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-have-no-standing-to-complain-about-court-packing/2020/10/09/ab4befaa-0a4f-11eb-859b-f9c27abe638d_story.html

The most important "bias" in US political media is that GOP fuckery - decades of it, perpetually escalating - is simply viewed as a feature of the landscape. Only Ds are treated as having volition, as making *choices* for which they must answer.

I think back to when Reid nuked the judicial filibuster. It was treated as a radical choice, a deliberate escalation of partisan warfare. The fact that McConnell had deliberately decided to filibuster ALL nominees -- violating tradition, breaking a basic Senate function ...

... was treated as a kind of background condition, like the weather, something that just happened, not anything anyone had control over. At no point did any part of the US political class *push McConnell to answer for it*. It just ... was. Only Reid was seen as making choices.

Good context. https://twitter.com/Autarkh/status/1310978372915216386